alex smoke & adam marshall @ snap gallery

featuring:

ALEX SMOKE

(Soma/Vakant/Hum+Haw) Glasgow, Scotland

Glaswegian based artist, Alex Smoke’s coveted releases on Berlin label Vakant have cemented his club credentials and found their way into boxes and laptops of innovative dj’s everywhere. Not content with a slew of killer twelves, Alex Smoke remixes have constantly been in demand, renovating Mylo, Junior Boys, Alex Under, Slam, Depeche Mode, Vector Lovers, Jeremy P. Caulfield, even the “pioneer of minimalism”, Steve Reich. His productions have been liscensed for many compilations from labels such as Fabric, Azuli, Cocoon, and Soma Recordings. 2007 has been a busy year for Alex Smoke with many club and festival bookings throughout Europe, and his live tour of North America planned for November and December. This will be his first appearance in Vancouver.

It is almost three years since Soma unleashed Alex’s masterful debut album, ‘Incommunicado’. Lauded by critics upon its release in March 2005, it portrayed his instinctive maturity in constructing emotional, deep grooves with intricate production techniques. With his second album, ‘Paradolia’ he has gone a step further, welding disparate genre’s including dub, electro, grime and minimal techno into mindbending opus’s. The most ambitious track on the album is ‘Prima Materia’. Here he unites his early influences of classical music and early house to detonate a symphonic explosion that sounds like nothing else around.

www.myspace.com/alexsmoke1 
www.gostimirovic.com/artists/alexsmoke 
www.vakant.net

ADAM MARSHALL

(New Kanada/Cynosure/Dumb-Unit) Toronto, Canada

Adam Marshall is one of the leaders of Canada’s growing electronic music community. His raw house groove and minimal techno roots combine to create a future style of soul. In both live sets and DJ performances, Adam has the ability to explore a full spectrum of music; from the deepest techno-funk to the most jacking house.

Growing up in Toronto, Adam was witness to the powerful mid-90’s Detroit techno - driving down to the Motor City frequently to experience the crazy parties and visit places like Under-ground Resistance and Record Time. Wanting to bring a similar sound - unconstrained by genres like “techno” and “house” music - to Toronto, Adam worked closely with other artists such as Mike Shannon, Jeff Milligan, and Jeremy P. Caulfield to produce events that broke new ground and showcased the up-and-coming Canadian sound.

In 1997, Adam became a DJ resident at the regular Blue events which introduced the city to DJ’s like Robert Hood, Richie Hawtin, Chez Damier, Slam, DJ Hell, Marco Carola, DJ Traxx, Ron Trent, Moodyman and Theo Parrish. This lasted for over 4 years and allowed Adam to develop his “sound” in the confines of an intimate club with a killer soundsystem. His well-developed mixture of techno and house was well received, and Adam quickly found himself DJing almost every weekend at amazing parties and events all over North America. During this time, he also worked as the lead buyer at Speed Records; then Toronto’s most well-known import vinyl record store.

Getting more and more into his studio and his own production work, Adam took a break from his consistent DJ schedule and changed his focus to starting a label of his own. Killer Recordings was born and the label released a set of strong EP’s from Jake Fairley, Matt Thibadeau, and himself. Killer operated until 2004, at which point Adam changed the name of the label to New Kanada and the sound became much more “mini-mal”. New Kanada has released tracks by Mike Shannon, J. Hunsberger, Jeremy P. Caulfield, Hearthrob, and Mood Edit.

Currently, Adam is the main resident at Toronto’s premier underground club Crosstown, playing weekly with guests such as Francois K., Derrick May and Larry Heard. He continues to push the boundaries of what “techno” is in his current production work, while regularily touring throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia.

www.adam-marshall.com 
www.newkanada.info 
www.myspace.com/remote_culture

with 

Miss Myte vs Jessie Bru 

Geoffrey Pye 

Aspect Unknown

@ SNAP GALLERY 

190 West 3rd Avenue, Vancouver, BC
10pm-late

Tickets available at Boomtown, Beatstreet, Dadabase, Zulu Records & online at www.popkiller.ca

$20 Earlybird

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